THE ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUNDS IN PRIVATE COURSE IN JAMBI CITY

Utami, Agustina Luli THE ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUNDS IN PRIVATE COURSE IN JAMBI CITY. JOURNAL THE ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUNDS IN PRIVATE COURSE IN JAMBI CITY.

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THE ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUNDS IN PRIVATE COURSE IN JAMBI CITY Agustina Luli Utami Jambi University February, 2018 E-mail: agustinaluliuta@gmail.com ABSTRACT This research was aimed to analyze students’ pronunciation difficulties in pronouncing fricative and affricate consonant sounds in private course in Jambi city including the students’ pronunciation of these particular sounds and the factors affects students’ pronunciation difficulties. Qualitative descriptive was used as the research method by using pronunciation test and interview as the instruments. The researcher conducted the pronunciation test to analyze students’ pronunciation of fricative and affricate consonant sounds; afterwards, interview was used to analyze the factors affects students’ pronunciation difficulties. The result of this research shown that there are nineteen kinds of deviation of fricative and affricate sounds including the substitution of those particular sounds in all of the three positions and elision of sound that solely occurred in the pronunciation of /θ/ sound; and there are five factors affect pronunciation difficulties those are L1 interference, amount of language learning, English habits, phonological background knowledge, and motivation. Key words: Pronunciation, consonant, difficulty, fricative, and affricate.

Type: Article
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Depositing User: AGUSTINA LULI UTAMI
Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2018 01:15
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2018 01:15
URI: https://repository.unja.ac.id/id/eprint/3524

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